This year, the reputation of domestic martial arts dramas is worrying.
Yang Youning starred in the "Tianlong Eight Parts" Douban score of 3.4, and Lu Qi's "Wudang One Sword" Douban score was only 4.7. Although the two dramas are adapted from the works of Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng, the four masters of chinese martial arts novels, netizens just don't buy it. On December 15, another martial arts drama was launched on Tencent Video. Since its inception, controversy has continued, and the groove point in the play has attracted many netizens and original fans to brush a star in Douban. This is a martial arts drama adapted from the online author Beacon Drama Princes of the same name network text - "Snow in the Sword Line".
To say that this lineup, "Knife Row in the Snow" is enough to arouse the appetite of the audience. Director Song Xiaofei has served as the cinematographer of the films "A Generation of Grandmasters", "Bullfighting", and "People in the Tai Of 囧", and screenwriter Wang Wei once won the Best Screenwriter (Adaptation) Award at the 26th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards for "The First Season of Qingyu Nian". In terms of the protagonist, Zhang Ruoyun plays Xu Fengnian, who is known as the "world's first cunning", and Hu Jun plays his father Xu Xiao. As for the supporting roles, they are also shining. Li Gengxi, Zhang Tianai, Meng Ziyi, Zhang Yishang, Wen Yongshan, Liu Peiqi, Yu Rongguang, Qiu Xinzhi, Dong Jie... Look at this team, how to see will not pounce, but after the broadcast, many viewers still questioned: "Snow in the knife line", in the end is it ok?
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The casting problem of "The Knife In the Snow" has become the target of everyone. Zhang Ruoyun's acting skills are beyond doubt, but his "black long straight" costume style is really not flattering.
Rong Zishan plays Xu Fengnian's younger brother "Huang Man'er" Xu Longxiang. The character has extraordinary bones but his mind is not open, and then look at Rong Zishan's appearance, the purity in his eyes can make people believe that he is a naïve and kind person. But the power is infinite... Zhu Chaoyang's small body always looks abrupt.
The heroine Jiang Ni, played by Li Gengxi, is extremely inconsistent with the personality of the characters in the play. Thinking back to that year, Xu Xiao led the Northern Starling Iron To ride the chaos of the Nine Kingdoms of the Northern Starling, helping the Yang Kingdom to achieve unification. Jiang Ni is the princess of the Western Chu State, one of the Nine Kingdoms. Although it led to the demise of Western Chu, Xu Xiao did not have a heart of pity, saved Jiang Ni, made him anonymous, and became a maid by the side of The Northern Starling.
Help, what daily newspaper? When is the hatred of the country? But these two emotions are not reflected in Li Gengxi's performance. Although Jiang Ni tries to assassinate Xu Fengnian, this plot is more like a family: the revenge carried out by the pain of the subjugation of the country is secretly carried out by the gambling qi assassination, coupled with the wandering eyes and the expression of Mu Ne, who does not see the princess Wang Gui's life, but increases the stupidity of the beard.
In addition, the blue, white, and blue tones have increased the lighting, which makes the film lack a certain texture, and even exposes the shortcomings in the actor's acting skills. Netizens joked that the original good martial arts drama, because of the green "death filter", became a mysterious horror film. This film lacks a three-dimensional sense of daylight, whether it is an outdoor bamboo forest, or an indoor boudoir, the characters and props are either a piece of green, or a piece of white, there is a feeling of watching Taiwanese urban drama.
The light is not three-dimensional, coupled with the simple makeup of the actors, its emotions are difficult to convey to the hearts of the audience.
Martial arts drama pulls the crotch, detailed improper "Snow in the Knife Line" also committed the taboo of martial arts drama - the whole drama slow-motion play too much. It's not that the more slow motion, the more advanced the play. Take the fight scene of Gong Er and Ma San in the movie "Generation Grandmaster" as an example, Gong Er avenged his father and wanted to clean up Ma San, the Bagua palm and the shape of the fist came and went, but in the end both sides were injured. The slow-motion play here is only used for the movement of the moment and the display of effects - Ma San's foot lifting, punching on the upright——, the battle part maintains normal speed. Coupled with the action director Yuan Heping and one of the screenwriters, Xu Haofeng, who implemented the details of martial arts, the action scenes of "A Generation of Grandmasters" appear to be tense and measured.
In contrast, in "The Knife Line in the Snow", the Nangong servant played by Zhang Tianai fell from the branches, turned around, and bayoneted... Even if you drive twice as fast, the action scene is strangely slow. Slow motion reduces the strength of fists to flesh, adding a hint of romantic tendency to the play, turning the real into a virtual, which makes the moves in the play give people the feeling of mistakenly entering the Xianxuan drama. Nangong servant shot through the crowd, only his finger pointed at the enemy, followed by a quick movement through the crowd, and everyone flew to the ground. One will be real, one will be virtual, disturbing the martial arts style of the play.
This kind of freehand play also sacrifices the martial arts passages that should be wonderful. However, when it comes to specific fight scenes, the treatment of "Snow Knife Line" is nothing more than three methods: first, with slow-motion close-up shots, reduce the smoothness of the action and cover up the fact that the actors have no martial arts skills; second, the action scenes of fist to flesh are processed into indirect royal sword behaviors, and the actors are even exempted from learning the kung fu of one and a half sword techniques, all of which are handled by special effects;
Third, skip the process of hand-to-hand combat and directly present its ending. And this kind of "cutting corners" approach has even reached the point of heinousness. Xu Feng's old servant Jian Jiu Huang went to Wudi City to challenge Wang Xianzhi, the "second in the world". The audience originally wanted to see Lao Huang's style, who knew that this protracted battle was presented in the form of words: "Wang Xianzhi heard the sound, the sword nine yellow five swords were exhausted, and the eight swords took turns against the enemy." Wang Xianzhi always responded with one hand and did not retreat one step. After sixty-eight moves, Sword Nine Huang used the sword Nine "Six Thousand Miles", and a martial artist saw this sword with his own eyes, saying that this sword was like a galaxy hanging upside down, pouring thousands of miles, and it was no longer a human sword skill. Wang Xianzhi finally used his hands, Sword Nine destroyed Wang Xianzhi's sleeve robe, the two were evenly matched, and after forty-nine more moves, Sword Nine Huang was exhausted and killed. The camera only gives Lao Huang a figure looking to the north and dying without falling, but does not show the spectacle of "six thousand miles". Replacing images with words is a pity.
The real hit is bokehed, and the detailed time is omitted from the table. But this is only the superficial problem of "Knife Line in the Snow", in the view of the pickpocket sister, the biggest drawback of this film is that the genre is not uniform.
The genre is mixed, the viewpoint is not clear at the current film and television works, the main composite genre film, the romance film adds a little suspense, thriller, horror film adds some adventure and humor, but its main type is clear. "Knife Line in the Snow" is to eat the loss of unknown style and mixed types. The audience clicked on the video with the expectation of watching a martial arts drama, and as a result, the first few episodes were like a light comedy.
The Imperial Family of the Liyang Dynasty was jealous of the Northern Starlings, fearing that its merits would be high and shocking the Lord, and openly proposed to let Xu Fengnian, the son of the Northern Starlings, enter the Dynasty as a donkey, but secretly wanted to take him as a hostage to clamp down on the Northern Starlings. Xu Xiao directly asked Xu Fengnian to leave the North Starling and travel through the rivers and lakes. Three years later, Xu Fengnian returned home, and the father met his son, just like a mouse meets a cat. Before entering Xu Fengnian's house, Xu Xiao first asked the servants to check whether they were dressed in Zhou Zheng; then instructed the next person that even if Wang Ye was killed by Xu Fengnian, the servants should pretend not to see it.
The "human slaughter" general became a sick cat at home, and his son was even more flying than Lao Tzu. The contrast in character personality and relationship adds a touch of humor, humor and humor to "The Knife In the Snow". But in episode 5, the farce between father and son is completely gone, replaced by the power drama of "there is a situation outside the bureau, and there are people outside the people". Back in Beilin, Xu Fengnian experienced "three assassinations". After two assassinations by Yu Youwei, a veteran of the Chu state and the daughter of the Chu state sword attendant, Lin Tanhua prepared to carry out the third assassination. Xu Fengnian had already seen this chess game of attacking the east and the west: the mastermind behind the scenes was Zhao Heng, the king of Jing'an, and his target seemed to be Xu Fengnian, but in fact it was the Qingzhou Lin family, just to bind the three assassinations together and give the Lin family the charge of collaborating with the enemy and plotting rebellion, thus dominating the qingzhou financial power. And all this has long been recognized by Xu Xiao.
Xu Xiao had long known about King Jing'an's plan, but instead of exposing it, he would make a plan in order to eliminate dissidents. He wanted to hand over the Northern Starling to Xu Fengnian, and he was jealous that the imperial family would support the "Huang Man'er" behind his back. Only because Xu Longxiang was born with divine power, but his mind was naïve, Xu Xiao was afraid that he would be manipulated by the imperial family, so he laid out a chess game to attract people who disturbed the situation in the North Starling. In the face of power, brotherhood can also be thrown away. Even if it is flesh and blood, Xu Xiao also regards it as a pawn.
In order to stabilize the situation in Beiling, Xu Xiao asked Xu Fengnian to make a choice: either kill the innocent generals who supported "Huang Man'er", not only to calm the hearts of the army, but also to sound the alarm for the black hands behind the scenes; or to send away "Huang Man'er" and let him leave Beilin, and the argument for power would disappear. On the one hand, there is truth and morality, and on the other hand, there is deep affection, and Xu Fengnian has also made difficulties. Therefore, "The Knife In the Snow" has become a power plot drama.
At the same time, the plot in "The Sword In the Snow" has risen to the level of martial arts, making it a martial arts drama. Wang Chonglou, the head of Wudang, was very worried: the Dragon tiger mountain supported by the imperial court was eyeing Wudang tiger. To this end, he passed on his life's true qi "Da Huang Ting" to Xu Fengnian, hoping that Bei starling would live up to Wudang. On the other hand, he deliberately arranged for the new head of Wudang, HongXuexiang, to "defect" to Princess Sui Zhu, thus co-opting the imperial family and removing the threat of Dragon Tiger Mountain. Cunning rabbit three caves, two backers, Wang Chonglou's move is also shrewd.
Each paragraph is quite interesting to pick up, and once it is pieced together, there is no main type to support, it seems to be different. Light comedy, martial arts drama, power plot drama, and Xianxuan drama are mixed and matched together, disturbing the viewing perspective, so that many viewers take the initiative to abandon the drama after watching the first four episodes. However, "Knife In the Snow" is not useless. In addition to the remarkable power plots, the character portrayal is also more distinct. Jianjiu Huangben was no longer intoxicated with martial arts, but after following the young master for three years, he was infected by Xu Fengnian's spirit of "not hiding, never retreating, not being afraid". Sword Jiu Huang, who always sang the song of "Old Dog", for the sake of dignity and in order to give Xu Fengnian a third way (not only to prevent "Huang Man'er" from leaving, but also to stabilize the situation in the North Starling), decided to go to Emperor Wu City again and face Wang Xianzhi.
The characters in the play have both sincere emotions and complex human faces. The two chess games symbolize the different attitudes of Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian's father and son. One is the "kill game" chess under Xu Xiao and the military master Li Yishan, alluding to the fact that the Taiping Dynasty was exchanged for killing and trickery. In Xu Xiao's heart, if he wanted to defend Jiangshan, he must make a comprehensive plan and take the lead in profit, and even his children were pawns in his own hands. One is a chess piece carved by Xu Fengnian with a knife in the Wudang Mountains, symbolizing his attempt to save the North Starling in a peaceful way.
The city government's deep power plot and chaotic war, meticulous character depiction, "The Sword in the Snow" is doomed to be not a bad drama. If the plot after that can highlight the human touch of the character and raise the power plot to a new height, "The Knife In the Snow", I think there is still a chance to turn over.